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The Hoodlum Priest (1967)
Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Action, Crime, History · 1h 24m
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
Cast
Shintarō Katsu
Mayumi Ogawa
Mikio Narita
Naoko Kubo
Jun Tatara
Hōsei Komatsu
Ryūtarō Gomi
Yoshio Kaneuchi
Fumio Watanabe
Shōsaku Sugiyama
Ikkei Tamaki
Crew
- Director
- Kimiyoshi Yasuda
- Screenplay
- Hajime Takaiwa
- Director of Photography
- Fujio Morita
- Original Music Composer
- Chumei Watanabe
- Editor
- Hiroshi Yamada
Details
- Original title
- やくざ坊主
- Release date
- 1967-11-15
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Action, Crime, History
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei Film